Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times more than in 1981. The aid package includes machine guns, automatic rifles, grenade launchers, radio equipment, uniforms and, of course, boots. At the same time, eight-to twelve-member U.S. Army Special Forces teams have been conducting training courses for soldiers and policemen on five of the sweet-smelling Spice Islands. Those developments are reassuring to some islanders, who feel that a build-up is long overdue and that by strengthening their defense forces they can resist leftist insurgencies. Other residents, however, fear that larger local armies will bring more war than peace to the region, turn their islands...
...Officer and a Gentle man, has banished darkness from his remake and told memory to take a hike. He works in a relentlessly sun-drenched present, and his central figures (Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward and James Woods) are used as symbols, not of the past's sweet cheats but of tedious corruption and the lost paradise of Los Angeles. The result is a flat, dumbly brutal movie, full of overplotted complexity and empty of all emotional resonance, except that provided by the presence of Jane Greer (the original film's dark lady, here doing a supporting role...
...beginning all seems very placid and sweet. On a sunny morning, James Tyrone (Kevin Walker) and his wife Mary (Deborah Carroll) are leaving the breakfast table where their sons are still chatting animatedly. He showers her with compliments, his doting voice touched with a gentle Irish lilt. She fusses coquettishly with her hair and teases him lovingly about his snoring. Soon, however, we learn that Mary is not only trying to overcome a morphine addiction, but also is fraught with worry for her frail younger son Edmund, whose "summer cold" shows signs of being consumption. The elder son Jamie...
...When we were written off [after the 0-2 start]" said Harvard Coach Joe Bernal, "we had to scratch, claw, bite and do just about everything. And that made it twice as sweet twice as rewarding to turn things around...
...weeks, the title the one a Harvard men's basketball team has never seized--had been tantalizingly dangling just out of the cagers' grasp. And after each successive Crimson victory, it all seemed to have finally come within reach. They could feel it. They began to anticipate the sweet taste which accompanies being the best...